If I Hear The Phrase “Love the Sinner Hate The Sin” One More Time I Will Puke by Terrell Harris

I am so sick and tired of “Christian” phrases that we tend to throw around as if they are scripture. Everywhere I turn I’m cornered by the phrase “You have to love the sinner and hate the sin right?” In fact we have been hearing the phrase for so long that we all assume that it is scripture. Facebook posts, Twitter posts, e-mails, blogs everywhere I turn everyone is saying “Love The Sinner, Hate the Sin”, it is almost becoming a cult chant.

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Now instead of going off in a rant about how this is not scripture I’ve found a quote Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D. who eloquently expresses my sentiments in his Huffington Post Article Entitled “’Love The Sinner, Hate The Sin’ And Other Modern-Day Heresies’.

“First, “love the sinner, hate the sin” is an unbiblical concept. Many people think that this is a divine command, but it actually doesn’t appear anywhere in the Bible. Although God clearly “hates” sin in the Bible (sane in Hebrew and miseo in the Greek), God never demands that we carry out this hatred on God’s behalf. God is perfectly capable of addressing the sins of others without needing our third-party intervention. Those who truly believe in “hating sin” probably should focus more on hating their own sins (i.e., first taking the log out of their own eyes, as Jesus says) instead of hating the sins of others. (See Matt. 7:5 and Luke 6:42.)” – (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-patrick-s-cheng-phd/love-the-sinner-hate-the_b_526355.html)

So stop it immediately! Your use of this term must end immediately, especially if you are using it in a theological discussion regarding sexuality! It’s quite a weak theological argument.

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